Comparative Federalism
The European Union and the United States in Comparative Perspective
Published on 16. November 2006
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-19-929110-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Convention on the Future of Europe served to galvanize debate about the nature and future developmental trajectory of the European Union. More specifically, it engendered discussion over the degree to which the process resembled that which had occurred in Philadelphia some two hundred years earlier, and, more broadly, over the extent to which the European Union does, or should, resemble the United States. Partly as a consequence of such debates, comparative federalism is now an important topic, with scholarly work comparing the US and EU proliferating rapidly. The present volume seeks to build on and contribute to this growing literature, by developing a systematic comparison of the institutions, policies and developmental patterns of the European Union and the United States.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
746 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-929110-6 (9780199291106)
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Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Director of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham. He previously spent ten years as Lecturer in European politics at the University of Oxford, where he was also a Fellow St. Antony's College. Prior to that, he gained his BA M.Phil and D.Phil from the same university.
Martin A. Schain is Professor of Politics, and Director of the Center for Europe-an Stud-ies, New York University. He is the author and editor of numerous books on Europe and France, and has also pub-lished many scholarly articles and book chapters on politics and immigration in France, Europe and the United States, the politics of the extreme right in France, politi-cal parties in France, and trade unions in France and Britain.
Martin A. Schain is Professor of Politics, and Director of the Center for Europe-an Stud-ies, New York University. He is the author and editor of numerous books on Europe and France, and has also pub-lished many scholarly articles and book chapters on politics and immigration in France, Europe and the United States, the politics of the extreme right in France, politi-cal parties in France, and trade unions in France and Britain.
Content
1. Introduction ; PART I: CONCEPTUAL; ISSUES, PRINCIPLES, AND APPROACHES ; 2. The United States and the European Union: Comparing two Sui Generis Systems ; 3. The Limits of Comparative Politics: International Relations in the European Union ; PART II. DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ; 4. Constitutionalizing the Federal Vision? ; 5. Eurofederalism: What can the European Union Learn from the United States. ; PART III. INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES ; 6. Federation, Confederation, and Mixed Government: A EU-US Comparison ; 7. Comparing Constitutional Change in the United States and the European Union ; 8. Federalism and Public Administration: the United States and the European Union ; 9. The US Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice Compared ; 10. Federalism and Democratization: The United States and the European Union in Comparative Perspective ; 11. Understanding the European Parliament from a Federalist Perspective: The Legislatures of the United Atates and the European Union Compared ; PART IV. PUBLIC POLICIES ; 12. The Politics of Central Banking in the United States and the European Union ; 13. Fiscal Federalism in the United States and the European Union ; 14. Agricultural Biotechnology: Representative Federalism and Regulatory Capacity in the United States and the European Union ; 15. Immigration Policy ; Index